Registry Driven Interoperability and Exchange of Documents

1. A computer-assisted method of selecting semantics transforms applicable to a document family, including: maintaining a document family registry data structure, including for a particular document family document family members, identified by library, document identifier, release version and schema type; semantic transforms between document family members, including logic executed remotely to implement the semantic transforms; associations of the semantic transforms with source and target document family members; responding to requests for transforms to convert a document from a source semantic version to a target semantic version by traversing the document family registry data structure as a directed graph and outputting one or more sequences of transforms determined by the traversing.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein: maintaining the semantic transforms further includes maintaining transform success scores; and traversing the document family registry data structure further includes calculating composite transform success scores for the sequences of transforms.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the transform success scores correspond to a fraction of fields translated verbatim from a field of the source document to a field of the target document.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the transform success scores correspond to a fraction of text in fields of the source document found verbatim in fields of the target document.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein: maintaining the document family registry data structure further includes maintaining special rules for transforms to be applied corresponding to one or more participants in a document exchange; and outputting further includes referring to privately maintained transforms, maintained separately from the document family registry data structure.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein outputting further includes referring to privately maintained transforms, maintained separately from the document family registry data structure.